KULTUR: Dem Fahrtwind mit Stil trotzen

Benz Patent Motor Car, long-distance drive from Mannheim to Pforzheim by Bertha Benz with her sons Eugen and Richard in August 1888. Illustration.

Automotive design and architecture: Mercedes-Benz 8/38 PS Roadster (1926 to 1928). Image taken in front of Le-Corbusier House at Stuttgart’s Weißenhof Estate, 1928.

Mercedes-Benz 8/38 hp model Stuttgart 200 (W 02), Cabriolet C (1926 to 1928).

Mercedes-Benz 8/38 PS Typ Stuttgart 200 (W 02), Limousine (1926 bis 1928). Mercedes-Benz 8/38 hp model Stuttgart 200 (W 02), Saloon (1926 to 1928).

Advertisement – “The lady chooses Mercedes-Benz.” Published in 1929 by the then Daimler-Benz AG. The car is a Mercedes-Benz type Stuttgart Cabriolet C. The motif was designed by Hans Neumann.

Still chic today: The tight-fitting ladies’ hat of the 1920s and 1930s. It protected the lady against the wind in the open cars of the day. Mercedes-Benz 500 K Special Roadster from 1935 in the background.
Copyright: Daimler/Mercedes-Benz
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